Server refresh cycle drives industry growth in Q4: IDC
The worldwide server market increased 5.2 percent year-over-year to $15.3 billion in Q4 as businesses pursue server refreshment and cloud service providers build infrastructure.
The worldwide server market increased 5.2 percent year-over-year to $15.3 billion in Q4 as businesses pursue server refreshment and cloud service providers build infrastructure.
Qualcomm says the SDP is now sampling to tier-one data centers after two years of development.
Most IT pros like you access the wealth of resources from our IT Directory via search. Using our BT Trax intelligence tool, we recently turned our attention to analyzing search terms to see which ones led to the most downloads across major categories.
Over the past six months more IT professionals have sought information on hardware solutions than any other technology area (networking is a very close 2nd). Data from BT Trax reveals a curiosity; storage resources were accessed more frequently than information about servers—34% compared to 25%.
ZDNet's latest chart of the week shows news items about Sun and IBM servers are far and away the hottest in that category. Through BT Trax, we continuously monitor how our IT content is consumed, and for fun, we slice and dice the data numerous ways to be sure we've looked at all sides of the coin, so to speak.
Plowing through more of our IT Priorities datahas turned up some interesting emerging trends in server plans 12 months out. Though the data set is still small (only 100 responses from our IT executives and managers), it appears as though there is a strong preference for Dell servers in our sample and an equally strong 'dislike' for IBM servers.